President Trump on Friday touted his latest pardoning of anti-abortion activists in a pre-recorded video performed earlier than 1000’s of attendees on the March for Life in Washington.
Trump the day earlier than the annual occasion pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists together with Lauren Useful, who was sentenced final 12 months to virtually 5 years in jail for her function in a 2020 blockade of a reproductive well being clinic.
Useful garnered widespread consideration after police stated they discovered 5 human fetuses in her Washington dwelling shortly after she was charged with federal civil rights offenses that 12 months.
In his message, Trump talked up his function within the Supreme Court docket’s 2022 determination overturning Roe v. Wade. Trump referred to as Roe v. Wade a disastrous ruling that kicked off 50 years of “division and anger.”
He additionally dedicated to stopping the “radical Democrat push” for “unlimited abortion” and promised to analyze “radical left attacks” on church buildings and disaster being pregnant facilities throughout his second time period.
“We will bring perpetrators to justice,” he stated.
Trump’s stance on abortion shifted over the course of the 2025 presidential marketing campaign as he sought centrist voters and confronted stress from social conservatives to maneuver to the precise on the problem.
When requested if he would help a nationwide abortion ban, Trump stated abortion selections ought to be left as much as particular person states.
Vice President J.D. Vance, who attended the march in particular person, informed the group that underneath a second Trump presidency, the U.S. faces the return of essentially the most “pro-family, most pro-life American president in our lifetime.”
Vance stated that he needs the federal government to make it simpler for Individuals to afford to have kids.
“We need a culture that celebrates life at all stages,” Vance stated. “One that recognizes and truly believes that the benchmark of national success is not our GDP number or our stock market, but whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in our country.”
